--On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 12:53:20 PM -0800 Gordon Messmer <gordon.messmer at gmail.com> wrote:> That depends on what you mean by "support." > > It's almost certainly possible to run the binaries on CentOS, but if you > need any technical support from the vendor of that application, they > might not provide it. Your first step should be to talk to them directly > and find out what level of support is available for CentOS. Then decide > whether or not that's a deal breaker.The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you can probably expect the 3rd party software to work exactly the same on RHEL and CentOS (barring some implausible edge cases), however your 3rd party vendor may refuse to support you at all if you're using something that's not on their supported platforms list. That is assuming you're using mostly base CentOS or only repositories that are known to not conflict with base. See the CentOS wiki for details. If they sign off on it, get it in writing (or save and print off that email). Even if they do, you should still be using a UAT environment to satisfy yourself and provide due diligence. Devin
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Devin Reade > > The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you can > probably expect the 3rd party software to work exactly the same on > RHEL and CentOS (barring some implausible edge cases), however your > 3rd party vendor may refuse to support you at all if you're using > something that's not on their supported platforms list.Hehehe, for what it's worth, I encountered one of those edge cases a few years ago. Dell OMSA, at least in the days of Centos 4, was distributed as a self-extracting binary, that would read the contents of /etc/redhat-release and compare it against a list of predefined strings, and then refused to operate. The workaround was to hack /etc/redhat-release. But anyway. That's pretty unusual. Thanks...
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/11/15 15:17, Edward Ned Harvey (centos) wrote:>> From: centos-bounces at centos.org >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Devin Reade >> >> The above answer is right-on. From a technical perspective, you >> can probably expect the 3rd party software to work exactly the >> same on RHEL and CentOS (barring some implausible edge cases), >> however your 3rd party vendor may refuse to support you at all if >> you're using something that's not on their supported platforms >> list. > > Hehehe, for what it's worth, I encountered one of those edge cases > a few years ago. Dell OMSA, at least in the days of Centos 4, was > distributed as a self-extracting binary, that would read the > contents of /etc/redhat-release and compare it against a list of > predefined strings, and then refused to operate. The workaround was > to hack /etc/redhat-release. > > But anyway. That's pretty unusual. Thanks... >IBM do something similar with GPFS. You have to tell it you are using RHEL when you are on CentOS. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJWQ7imAAoJEAF3yXsqtyBlRR4QAOTu6Fr3iqOtCaffdnt9dkjY 5B2z13vjvwzYgDXWl8T8tXeGCzOHP/mk2YY92GI7wDZrGf6+l88R8f0dkxWSLpyw wbG44VlLa5dXtLPQyi+RCzq6YFMaDrsdTMDGzgqmI/kTu5RQ7EDJuv/BzpDyZ7lE Na+WwnHM70WgfzPQCRIVno5/LJPQlZxYEZKNBRwcaMzzTNSZFQrkM3Jy+WrAlgqu 9VxAqs3T2HLggxYfIqlBhihdYoDdEzMxcN+YVJYzqxoyzGnGnt4gSs8UI9WoNY3T YzkfjJwBL7o3Nbq9UJbJaL/ArtxAKfZNfdzS+d816kuPR49zYNONGHenKQR7nB7+ YgOU7uOrrVG8QYt1tFfvM3Z61IwbPPrlJRIHx4/WZlGVlG4jb15N90KunXjLxdTG CawIU3iVAtN3vzb2k7rSPfCme2A1gpnYYeFKTnsTqJ4uHKEcG4q5wvcmU4Bdmmsz HajBYYOklHHTCOzEhPgeQRGGUXTFzPXygzXodet1m/DSJR95Bqfp1gNuqAL1mqe/ I6mhan1suowvluONhBitDCjfgU5fRPP7xwTyOlk79dpvYr+aAC2QqmGAMSWo03JP RlO+SEt1+C2hw3LaEGcOBnolRhkVDVu7gqM8H34UsoVXXkcEennGjg6MdQwuZuSu RoMnMq+Plwmoip9kOQQi =HcSd -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----